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BRILLIANT SUCCESS,
satisfactory Results Obtained by the {
trich-Growers of California

satisfactory Results Obtained by the On.
trich-Growers of California.
The growing of ostriches in California
Is brilliant success. The feathers are
equal to the best grown in Africa. Tie
height of the birds is from to 12 feet.
Their weight-varies from 800 to 400
pounds. The male is much the larger
and is black, while the female is gray.
Some male ostriches weigh as much as
800 pounds. 1t is large turkey that
weighs 20 pounds. This shows that a
first class ostrich weighs as much As
twenty-five large turkeys or four large
calves. To stuff an ostrich for baking
purposes, requires two bushels of filing.
When roasted you have one pound Of
food for over 500 men.
The female ostrich does not begin to
lay eggs until it is four years old, but it
produces its first crop of feathers at the
end of its first year. Every seven
months thereafter its plumage is ready
for market, yielding about % of the
very finest feathers, besides a large
number of less valuable ones. The
feathers are not plucked, but are cut off
quite close to the skin with large shears
made for the purpose. No pain what
ever is inflictedin the operation. Within
few days after the feathers have been
cut the stubs dry and shrivel to such an
extent that they are easily removed.
The longest and finest white feathers
are worth at wholesale 81 apiece, and
good feathers are worth 5000 a pound.
The first clipping of young birds will
average $40 in value. 1t requires
good deal of capital to start an ostrich
farm, as full grown pair of birds is
worth from 500 to $500, and a single
young bird six months old. costs from
$3.50 to 5000; but after once under way.
the return for the investment is a large
one.
In California nearly all the ostriches
are Matched by incubators driven by
steam.
The stride of the ostrich when feeding
is from 20 to % inches; when walking,
but not feeding, rs inches; and when
terrified, from liz to IA feet. An ostrich
can do with ease, when frightened,
forty miles an hour No race horse can
do this.-C0r. GooddAs Sun.
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The Tower of London.

Mr.. Lee, in a lecture at Brooklyn the
other day on the Tower of London, stated
that it is fact that grass could never
beinduced to grow upon the spot where
the hapless Lady Jane Grey yielded up
her innocent life Another interesting
episode was the narrative of the discoy.
cry few years ago of lower range OF
dungeons below those which were al
ready known to exist. One of these,
lower oubliete, was found knee deeT
In water, the passage to it swarmine
with rats. and in the dungeon the skel.
eton of a woman, with iron chains still
about the bones. Not the slightest cleW
TO her identity could be found, and ever
the very existence of the dungeon had
been forgotten, II Philadelphia Cal.
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FARM AND FIREsIDe

Growing clover for feeding, ho,A
Tor its nutritive and manurial yslns /;
steadily growing in favor.-M z M
ness. TN
Hogs need range and grass C,s.
confinement in pens with a diet ma;al.
OF corn can not fail to promote screfn
lousconditions.- Orange County Former.
TO make old-fashioned apnle-son..
fill deep pudding dish with chonp ss,
apples; put in two cups of sugar AMI
one cup of water. Bake SLOWLY two !,
three hours. They will be ..,leen raa
brown" and very nice.-Boston Glas ss
Nice coffee without eggs: NAB
small sack of cheese cloth, put in small,
tablespoonful for each cup of cotYaa.
need not tie the sack; put in the pot
and pour a pint of cold water on /,
Set this ON in the morning and let 4
come to boil, then fill up as YOU wish
with hot water. Turn sack wrong siao
out after breakfast. rinse and div 4,
next time.-BoSton Budget.
After stove has been blackened j,
can be kept looking very well for lono
time by rubbing it with paper every
morning. Rubbing with paper i !
much nicer way of keeping a teakettle
coffee-pot and teapot bright and clean
than the old way of washing them in
suds. Rubbing with paper is also the
best way of polishing knives, tinware
and spoons; they shine like new silver
Exchange.
Bread Fritters: Cut thin ro,Ind
slices of bread, butter them very thinly
spread with jam, and stick together in
pairs. Fry in boiling lard, after dipping
them in batter of one egg, one pint
milk, pinch of salt, and flour enough
to make a pancake batter. Pile high on
a dish and sprinkle with sugar. Good
Housekeeping.
Spice Cake: Beat two cupfuls
brown sugar. one-half cupful butter,
yelks of four eggs and whites of two
(save two whites to ice) till smooth; add
one-half cup sour milk, one nutmeg
grated, two teaspoonfuls ground cloves.
one teaspoonful ground cinnamon and
two cups of flour in which sift one tea
spoonful soda. Bake in three layers
and ice with white icing between and
outside. Boston Bulletin.
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MISCELLANEOUS,

"A Deadwood %. T.) justice Of the
peace married couple recently. An
hour later they returned and applied to
the Justice for divorce. The bride said
that she got married merely to spite an
old lover.
The production of the very fines,
makes of steel has led to the perfection
of processes in the use of fuel at Spring
field, Mass. A finer grade of gun-metal
is made by flame produced from gas
oline.-Bcstoaa Post.
Frank Grove, hunting deer on Blue
Mountain, Cal, saw one pass over a
ridge. He hurried up, and looking down
the slope and seeing what he thought
was the deer, fired, and put a bullet
through the leg of miner who was
STOPPING over, shoveling.
Ten thousand families in New York
are said to make way with their vege-
table refuse by burning it in the kitchen
range. An effort is being made to ex-
tend the practice, and if it is successful
New York will probably be the cleanest
city in the world.-M y Mail.
In Washington dwell two women
who own so much bric-a-brac that they
have moved into larger house to ac-
commodate it. Among other rare things
is screen, such as is used in eastern
harems, made of carved wood, with
curious little windows which open and
shut like DOORS Washington Post.
"A woman is bound to have the last
word. When the editor of the Peavane
demonstrated with the principal con-
tributor of the poets corner of his valu-
able sheet for writing on both sides of
her paper, she quietly retorted, swell,
and don't you print on both sides OF
yours?' '-Boston Transcript.
-Eunice Barton, an eighteen-year-
old girl of Frederick, W. Va, was shot
dead by her younger sister, who was
examining a revolver that she knew
was not loaded. Eunice was to have
been married soon to Asa Gray, young
farmer, but she was buried on that day
instead.
An engineer on an Iowa railroad
saw flock of turkeys on the track, and
knowing their habits, slowed up, blew
his whistle, and got them off without
killing any. The owner, unobserved,
saw the proceedings, ascertained the
engineers name, and sent him the fat
test hen in the flock for his Sunday din
Chicago Mall
before the curtain was drawn up
at the Union Square theater last even
ing" relates the New York World, ga
young woman who occupied front
seat in the center of the orchestra stood
and deliberately removed lofty and
wide-spreading bonnet from her head.
As it disappeared from the INSTRUCTED
view of those behind round of applause
greeted the considerable action of the
young lady. At the conclusion of the
last act the occupants of the neighbor-
ing chairs remained in their seats and
allowed her and her escort to precede
them out of the empty aisle"
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The public has paid for Appleton's
American Cyclopedia, in its various
editions. including annual supplements
nearly SIS, 700, 600
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Honey is an excellent palliation in
coughs, colds, sore throat, baby sore
mouth and early stages of diphtheria.
Montreal Witness.
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The washerwomen of Holland, who
get up their linen so beautifully white,
use refined borax as washing powder
instead Of soda, in the proportion Of
one large handful of borax powder to
about ten gallons of boiling water.
They thus save in soap nearly half. All
the washing establishments adopt the
same mode. For laces, cambrics, etc.,
an extra quantity of the powder is
used, and for crinolines (requiring to be
made stiff a strong solution is neces-
sary. Borax, being neutral salt, does
not in the slightest degree injure the
texture of the linen; its effect is to
soften the hardest water.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-07-18
FURY OF THE FLAMES.
Two Very Serious Conf i
g~rations In New York.
Painfully Iniured-Two
Hundred Orphans Aroused by
the Fire Fiend---Th ree Men
VIII Die. j

NEW YORK, July 16s-Fire was dis
covered In the five-story brick warehouse
OF the Metropolitan Storage company.
one Thirty eighth street. In a few min
utes the whole place was a roaring furn-
ance and flames went shooting towards
the sky. Three alarms were sent in and
special engine companies summoned.
For a while it was feared the Casino
building would be in ashes. 1t forms an.
Il with the warehouse but the strenuous
efforts of the irernen saved 1t. The
hotel Normandie next caught fire on the
roof from falling sparks. The guests
were all notified that there was no i'm
mediate danger and quietly packed their
%yaluabies and left. The fire on the roof
was soon extinguished however, and the
guests reassured, returned to their rooms.
Soon after the flremen got to work on
h storage warehouses terrific explosion
occurred n sever tiremen at work on
the first floor were blown through the
window into the street. Ali were Sc.
versly burned about the hands and feet.
The injured tiremen were taken in an
ambulance to the hospital.
The business was conducted by Scion
w. Rtdobock, and the buildings and land
was the property of the Goodat estate.
The fire was discovered by a %watchman
in the building who ut once sent in an
alarm. The warehouse was used by
New Workers out of town, and contained
furniture, bric-a-brac. etc. 1t is believed.
the loss viii exceed a half million dollars.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-07-18
a sCUTTLED GRAF 7.
5 xtcen Inches If Plank
Violently Ps netrated by
u sword Fish.
Priaoe of Sea Monsters---Experi-
ence of a Ship--The Work Of
Dislodging it.

PHILADELPHIA, July ia wondering
throng of sailors and landsmen sur
rounded the bark Ornen as she lay at her
dock in the Delaware. The object of
their curiosity was the t'nose'' of q
sword-fsh four feet long, driven through
sixteen inches Of stout Norwegian pine
and penetrating ten inches into the cargo.
The vessel. through the hull of which
this sea monsters weapon had penetrated,
came into this port from Santos, Brazil,
by way OF the Barbados. The bark is a
staunchly built Norwegian craft, and the
planks in her hull are even harder than
American oak. While her cargo of sugar
was being unloaded at the refinery
wharf, a long black object, like the point
of an enormous bayonet, was discovered
thrust ten inches into one of the hogs
heads of sugar. so firmly impaling it that
some difficulty was experienced in getting
the hogshead free from the vessels bot
tom. The end or the sword looked like a
large marlin spike, and all attempts to
dislodge it were fruitless. A close ex-
animation, however, proved that the OBJ
ject was the Sword of a swordsfish,
which had been driven through the
planking of the bark's hull. The point
of the Sword, y which projected into the
vessels hold, was as hard as flint. The
only weapon which made any impression
upon it was an AK, with which the end
was finally broken off and taken on deck,
where it was exhibited to the sailors and
steyedores.
From the accounts of the crew and the
bark's officers it seems that the fish must
have struck the vessel near the region Of
the equatorial calm. The mate says that
while the bark was moving along very
slowly, with scarcely a ripple disturbing
the surface of the ocean, one calm day in
May, a terrific shock was experienced
which almost threw the vessel aback and
hurled some of the crew off their feet.
The incident caused considerable excite
nlent on board, and it was feared that a
hidden rock had been struck until the
captain looked over the starboard quarter,
whence the shock appeared to have come,
and saw an normous fish just disappear
ing beneath the waves. Until the
sword was discovered, it was supposed
that the bark had struck a dead or sleep.
ing whale. This instance of the force
with which the sword-f1sh can strike an
object is n of the most remarkable ever
reported. A specimen of planking which
has been deposited in the British museum
In London as a great curiosity, shows the
sword of one of these fish, three feet long,
which had pierced ten inches of wood,
The sword found in the Ornen had evil
IDENTIFY been driven with almost twice the
force with which the specimen III the
British museum had been impeiled.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-07-18
SOME SOUND SUGGESTIONS.

49, ~
Teacher. ran Legislatures what rhsy
should Do.
CHICAGO, July 18.-Ths national edu-
cational association concluded Its con
yention here. Resolutions were adopted
declaring that education OF the youth Of
land is a matter of supreme import.
ance affecting as it does the stability and
prosperity OF the republic, the peace of
society and the dignity and happiness 81
the individual citizen; that the several
state legislatures should enact laws re-
qnirfng instruction to be given In all
public schools in physiology and hygiene
with special reference to the injurious es-
fects upon the human system OF alcohal
and narcotics; laws snppressing the pub
LEGATION and sale OF impure literature. and
laws ferbidding the sale OF tobacco to
youth.
A committee was appointed to cenfer
with congress upon the subject tY ma
tional aid to education. Gen. Francis M.
Walker, president of the Massachusetts,
institute of technology, addressed the con.
vention upon the subject Of manual train
ing. The list of officers for thu ensuing
year, as recommended by the nominating
coramittes was adopted. Various mis-.
cellaneous papers upon educational top
les were read.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-07-18

Joseph. Mo.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, July 18.-The board
of trade and city council hns forwarded
to President and Mrs. Cleveland an inyi-
tation to extend their western. trip to st.
Joseph. The invitation is deliberately
gotten up and printed on parchment and
bound In morocco. Embossed on the
back in gold letters are the following in
scriptions:
ITO President and Mrs. Cleveland.
with the compliments of the board of
trade and mayor and council of St.
Joseph, Mo. Immediately above the
inscription is the national flag with the
stars arranged in the form of a large
star. The invitation from the board OF
trade is neatly engraved, ard is as fol-
lows:
ttTo President and Mrs. Cleveland:
The board Of trade, representing tho en-
tire business interests sof St. Joseph.
Mo, cordially inyites you and your party
to extend your proposed western tour to
this city, and accept such Inequalities as
may be its pleasure to extend.'a
This is followed by the invitation of
the mayorsand council, as follows:
ITO President and Mrs. Cleveland:
The mayor and council fer and on behalf
of the people at large of ST. Joseph, Mo,
respectfully tender you the freedom and
Inequalities of the city, and heartily
join the board of traG.. in an Invitation
to you aud your party to visit st. Joseph
on your western tour"
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-07-18
Found to be Cracked.


PADUcAH, KY, July 16.-on Tuesday
ayoung man presented an order to J. Nj.
Buckner & Co, requesting the firm to
pay the bearer, Atkins, $500, and signed
Arch Miller. This was, the name OF a
prominent tobacco dealer at Paris Land
Ing, Tenn. with whom the firm have an
open account. Mr.. Miller was in the
city a few days ago and drew 81, 900, and
this aroused suspicion. Mr.. Buckner re-
fused to pay the order n notified the
police, who arrested him. He was rec
ognrzed as G. +. Beaman, of Coldwater,
Ky. At first he denied being the man
but afterward confessed. and, after being
locked up, feigned insanity and claimed
TO know nothing about what had hap
pened. He is about "a years old. and up
to a year ago bore u good reputation. He
was a member of the firm of Beaman
Bros. %Infiisrs, at Coldwater.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-07-18
Painful and Eatal Accfd ont.

CHICAGO, July ia horrible accident
occurred at the Union Steel works, cor
ner of Ashland and Archer venues by
which three men are likely to die. The
men were engaged importing molten iron
into a green kettle, Y when an explosion
occurred, throwing hot iron all over the
building. These kettles are lined with
moist clay, and the clay in this one was
not dry. When the molten iron came in
contact with the moisture, steam was
generated, which caused an explosion.
Nine men were struck by the molten
metal. Three viii die The names of
the latter are Michael Hisch, George
Woodford and Fera1 Kutsohe. The fol-
lowing named were seriously injured but
will probably ecove james Benneke,
Samuel Wakely, James Hurst, David
Jenkins I. F. johnson, foreman, was
also slightly burned.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-07-18
No Law ia S. on II.

ST. LeSis, Iply 16.-The case OF the
state against Chris yonderahe, presl-
dent of the st. Louis base bali club.
charged with violating the Sunday law.
came mp in the criminal cour before
Judge Noonan. The state. represented
by Prosecuting Attorney Claiborne. of.
fered TO prove that base bali was PLAYED
last Sunday at Sportslnens' park By the
st. Louis Browns, a bali club employed
by an incorporation company, of which
the defendant was the president, all OF
which w'as admitted by attorneys for the
There were a few witnesses
called by the defense, among them Con.
gresham 0'Neill, to prove that good or
der was maintained ut the park. After
arguments on Doth sides as to the points
of law involved. Judge Noonan; in rem
dering his decision. said that in 1897.
when the law was enacted, base hall was
unknown, and decided substantially that
saiaried ball playing was not labor bWj
recreation, and therefore discharged tht,
defendant.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-07-18
Terrible Railroad Accident.

ST. THOMAS, Ont, July 16.-An excur-
sion train of ten crowded cars on the
Michigan Central railroad ran into q
freight train loaded with coal and crude
oil. The oil took fire, and many of the
passengers We're jncinerated. Nineteen
persons were killed and burned outright,
and forty or more were severely and some
seriously wounded. The refusal Of the
air brakes on the passenger train to work
was the cause Of the accident.
The work of removing the bodies from
the wreck caused by the collision con-
tinued all night. So far fourteen bodies
have been taken from the ruins. Tho
names of the dead so far recognized are
Mrs. Tamuel Frame and child; Mrs, J..
W. Baynes, Two children and Ethel an
infant, London; Henry..Donnally, London:
Mr.. Seuland and child; Mrs. J.
Snither and child. Herman Passford
who was terribly burned by flying oil
while rescuing passengers has died. 1t
is stated Engineer Dcnnally YVES intoxi-
Gated at the time of tho accident. The
number of injured it is said will foot up
fifty or sixty The blame all rests on
the London and Port Stanly company.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-07-18
warning Families.

HOLDEN, Mo-, July 16.-A ieud has
long existed between the families Of Fred
VESSEL and Mike Brennon. neighbcrs IN
North Holden. The interchange of threats,
menaces and insults has recently been ex-
ceedingly obnoxious to the families in
that vicinity, and both the above families
are under arrest and prosecution by the
city authorities. While the trial OF the
Vessels was in progress 3 street fight
occurred between AL Vessels and Tom
Brennan, during which the former used
Il pistol and the latter a knife. Brennan
being routed In the fight his sister, Mag
gle Brennan, rushed ON the scene of COM
bat, and With Q stone struck VESSEL In
the head, fnfiicting q serious wound, and
thon attacked him with her fists. The
parties are ali under arrest.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-07-18
: cLoup guRsT IN AsIzoNA.
Flooding . Town In a short Space of
Time,

r.aLua-
NosALEs, Ariz., July 16.-One of the
most severe rain-storms ever sesn here
came up. It appears that there was a
clond-burst on the mountain southwes'
of town, in Sonora, and within the space
of half an hour the town was ainfs,5t
1ooded. On the west side of town is ii
large aroya, and in a few minutes that
swellsd to the width of more than 2U0
feet. Most OF the damages was do e III
Nogales. In Sonora there were five houses
washed away and one child drowned.
One woman and two. children we,4s swept
into the current, but were fortunately
saved. With other property swept away
were three sewing machines and twelve
trunks with their contents.
One peculiar feature, of the food was
the action Of a little Mexican boy aged IL
years. When his mothers house was
swept away he attempted to hold u trunk
and was taken Town with the current.
Although the current was swift and APP
palltng he held on, and when last seen
h~ouudering, no one supposed that he
would ever be rescued. After the storm.
subsidized a large party went out and
found him five miles from town. He was
busy picking up pieces OF property, but
vas PioepS paaiy uTuIStu dOout Une mead
and the upper part of the body. T. H.
Heafy. the station agent, who fastened
to the woman ind two children being car
ried away by the flood, braYely plunged
into the water and succeeded insrescuing
them. So far as can be learned there was
but one person drowned, a Mexican child.
The body has not been recovered. There
were slight washeuts on the railroad north
of town, but it was repaired in a few
hours and the trains are running on regu-
lar time.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-07-18
Protesting Kansan..

i WASHINGTON, July 16.-A delegation is
here from Kansas to protest against sub
mitting proposed experiments in sorghum
sugar manufacture othe control of Prof.
Wiley, Of the agricultural bureau. 1t is
alleged that Prof. Wiley, while conduct
ing experiments in Kansas last year, used
his best Efforts in the interest Of the best
sugar producers Of Europe, and that he
can not be expected TO properly expend
the $50, 900 appropriated bF congress for
this purpose. The. Kansans now here
threaten that the bounty of &c. per pound
voted by the legislature of their state for
the Fort Scott works will not be paid IL
Prof. Wiley Is detailed, and they charge
Commissioner Coleman with a breach of
faith in delegatinR Wiley Tor tho work
after having promised, as they allege,
that he would not do so.
Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-07-18
Killed By His Own Treatment.

KANSAS CITY. Mo-, July 16.-John
Gallagher, foreman in the press-rooin at
the Kansas City Bank Note Company,
died at the Sisters hospital He Was u
for some weeks, and on Monday last quit
work and retired to his room, where ne
began d%octoring himself with cold baths
and drinks of ice water and lemonade.
a doctor was summoned and found that
he had almost killed himself with his
treatment and told him to go to the hos
pital. He went to the hospital and re-
ceiyed the best of medical attention, but
was too far gone and died of congestion
of the bowels. Coroner Ellston held al
autopsy this morning and decided thai
death was caused by the above mention
ed complaint.